[ops33]

Just out of curiosity, does any of this actually help fight breast cancer?

[RPTMS]

Exactly! Instead of buying pink cleats, jerseys, etc. they could just do a few PSAs and spend the money on actual research.

[verum ago]

Just out of curiosity, does any of this actually help fight breast cancer?

It advances the noble cause of lip service.

Sometime I'd like to see someone calculate the cost of all the pink crap, then have the NFL donate twice that to researchers and not bother getting the pink stuff.

[nickcarraway]

No.

[chrisser]

Just out of curiosity, does any of this actually help fight breast cancer?

I believe it falls under the catchall category of "Raising awareness".

But it could also be "Making a difference", "Having an impact", or "Focusing attention" - it's so hard to tell these days.

A more accurate description would be "wasting resources on self-congratulatory nonsense".

[BipolarBob]

Of course not. Why would you even ask such a question?

[discostu]

Have any of the big medical “charities” ever declared victory over their disease and closed up? Both our questions have the same answer.

Luckily Komen is starting to annoy people, I think we’ve got at most 5 more years of the pink parade in October.

[Red Badger]

There’s a fine for every player who does not wear official NFL sanctioned gear. It used to be $100, years ago, probably $1000 nowadays. The fines are donated to NFL charities, normally, but the pink fines are donated to breast cancer research.
So, every player you see wearing a pink item, gloves, shoelaces, etc, is making a ‘donation’.........

[ilovesarah2012]

That is what I always ask. I think it’s nothing more than “feel good” crap. Why not use the money to fund mammograms for women who can’t afford them instead? I think everyone is aware of breast cancer. Oh, and don’t send them to Planned Parenthood - they do not do mammograms, despite what idiot Obama says.

Also, making NFL players wear pink is just further sissification of men.

P.S. - I am a woman.